In addition, the album ranked at number one on the US Billboard Heatseekers Album chart, which focuses on new artists not yet ranked in the top 100 of the Billboard 200.
XG’s “GRL GVNG”, released in 2023, became the first Japanese artist to rank at No. 1 weekly on the US Billboard “Hot Trending Songs Powered by Twitter” chart, marking the first time since then that XG has achieved this feat. .
Their 2nd mini album “AWE” was released in Japan on November 8th and in the United States on December 6th. It reached No. 3 in Oricon’s “Weekly Album Ranking” and Billboard Japan’s comprehensive album chart “Hot Albums,” peaked at No. 12 on the Apple Music (Worldwide) Daily Album Chart, and ranked in 48 countries on the top 200 Best of Apple Music Album. in the iTunes Top 100 Pop Albums (Worldwide), the lead song “HOWLING” MV has ranked in YouTube trending charts in 10 countries and regions, and also in the U.S. She is now a global sensation, becoming the first Japanese female artist to rank on the Billboard Rap Digital Song Sales chart.
In addition, XG has been holding their first world tour “The first HOWL” since May this year, and has held 29 performances in 26 cities around the world so far, with approximately 120,000 people in Asia, 50,000 in North America, They mobilized about 30,000 people in the United Kingdom and Europe, and a total of about 200,000 people, a number that never before seen overseas performances by a Japanese artist. Next year, in addition to additional performances in Japan in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka, performances in Australia were announced in Sydney and Melbourne in February, and performances in South America are also planned.
It was also recently announced that she will be the only Japanese artist to perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, one of America’s largest music festivals, and the first Japanese artist to be the second headliner (she is listed in second row after the headline), and has received a great response.
XG’s global success continues unabated.